Language and Liberation: Feminism,

Presenting new and important scholarship in feminist language theory, this book addresses issues within diverse traditions, bringing together feminist positions, strategies, and styles in an original way. Gathering together authors with different backgrounds and methods, Language and Liberation puts this diverse scholarship into dialogue.The questions and concerns reflected in these essays are presented within the context of their historical background, provided by the editors' comprehensive Introduction. These questions include: Is there a distinction between "female" and "male" language? What is the relationship of feminine/feminist identity to language? What is the value of metaphor for feminist theory and practice?

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: How to Do (Feminist) Things With Words	p. 1
The Power of Words: Changing Meanings, Changing Social Spaces
Derogatory Terms: Racism, Sexism, and the Inferential Role Theory of Meaning	p. 41
Discourse Competence: Or How to Theorize Strong Women Speakers	p. 81
Surviving to Speak New Language: Mary Daly and Adrienne Rich	p. 99
From Revolution to Liberation: Transforming Hysterical Discourse into Analytic Discourse	p. 129
The Power to Speak: Who Is Speaking, from Where?
Disarticulated Voices: Feminism and Philomela	p. 149
Confessional Feminisms: Rhetorical Dimensions of First-Person Theorizing	p. 173
The Postcolonial Critic: Shifting Subjects, Changing Paradigms	p. 207
The Power of Masculinist Metaphors: Words That Keep Women in Place
Sublime Impersonation: The Rhetoric of Personification in Kant	p. 243
Frege's Metaphors	p. 271
Free Gift or Forced Figure? Derrida's Usage of Hymen in "The Double Session"	p. 299
The Power of Feminist Metaphors: Words That Open Spaces for Women
At the Limits of Discourse: Heterogeneity, Alterity, and the Maternal Body in Kristeva's Thought	p. 323
Writing (into) the Symbolic: The Maternal Metaphor in Helene Cixous	p. 347
Language and the Space of the Feminine: Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray	p. 367
About the Contributors	p. 393
Index	p. 397
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Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy, and Language

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